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FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY TRIED TO REVEAL RUSSIAN TAMPERING MONTHS BEFORE ELECTION
Newsweek ^ | 3/29/17 AT 5:43 PM | BY JOSH SAUL AND MAX KUTNER

Posted on 03/29/2017 8:06:25 PM PDT by SSS Two

FBI Director James Comey attempted to go public as early as the summer of 2016 with information on Russia’s campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, but Obama administration officials blocked him from doing so, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Newsweek.

Well before the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence accused the Russian government of tampering with the U.S. election in an October 7 statement, Comey pitched the idea of writing an op-ed about the Russian campaign during a meeting in the White House’s situation room in June or July.

“He had a draft of it or an outline. He held up a piece of paper in a meeting and said, ‘I want to go forward, what do people think of this?’” says a source with knowledge of the meeting, which included Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson and the national security adviser Susan Rice.

The other national security officials didn’t like the idea, and White House officials thought the announcement should be a coordinated message backed by multiple agencies, the source says. “An op-ed doesn’t have the same stature, it comes from one person.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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1 posted on 03/29/2017 8:06:25 PM PDT by SSS Two
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Newsmax....I’ll wait a bit to comment.


2 posted on 03/29/2017 8:08:08 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SSS Two

Tampering? You mean like how Obama was tampering with the elections in Israel?


3 posted on 03/29/2017 8:08:36 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: SSS Two
“He had a draft of it or an outline. He held up a piece of paper in a meeting and said, ‘I want to go forward, what do people think of this?’

Psssst!! It was his grocery list.

4 posted on 03/29/2017 8:09:12 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Sacajaweau
Newsmax

???

5 posted on 03/29/2017 8:09:58 PM PDT by SSS Two
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Sounds like the DHS fake memo.

Comey won’t comment on its veracity, and the “source with knowledge of the meeting” is a former Obammite with a new gig at CNN.


6 posted on 03/29/2017 8:10:09 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: SSS Two

A website resulting from a one dollar sale of a failed news magazine named “Newsweek” is now telling us what is true? Nonsense.


7 posted on 03/29/2017 8:14:19 PM PDT by Fungi (What is the most important fungus the world has ever known?)
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To: SSS Two

I’m getting tired of this BS. The Russkis expose the Clintoon Crime Family’s crimes and it’s the Russkis who are the bad guys. We’ve got too many retards living in this country.


8 posted on 03/29/2017 8:15:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain has got to go. The boy is crazy.)
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To: SSS Two

Comey loves to play good cop, bad cop. Time to investigate HIM!


9 posted on 03/29/2017 8:15:50 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The Russians are guilty of the truth.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201603061035871466-trump-neocons-critique-analysis/

A blast from the past.


10 posted on 03/29/2017 8:15:59 PM PDT by Bogie
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The commies @ Newstweek are strong with the propaganda.


11 posted on 03/29/2017 8:16:17 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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“He had a draft of it or an outline. He held up a piece of paper in a meeting and said, ‘I want to go forward, what do people think of this?’” says a source with knowledge of the meeting, which included Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson and the national security adviser Susan Rice.

Bull...fake news made up or lying source.

12 posted on 03/29/2017 8:17:11 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: SSS Two

Is this new news?


13 posted on 03/29/2017 8:17:55 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Probably retard is the wrong word for those with faith in television.

I would go with "functional idiot."

14 posted on 03/29/2017 8:20:48 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: SSS Two
So Comey was prevented from releasing information that would have handed the election to Hillary? Color me skeptical.
15 posted on 03/29/2017 8:22:25 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: SSS Two

Bullshit!!!!!!!!!


16 posted on 03/29/2017 8:22:53 PM PDT by sport
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Why would 0vomit NOT want it investigated and revealed if the Russians were helping Trump? It only makes sense to squash the investigation if the Russians are helping the democrats.

Therefore, my conclusion is that either the Russians were not helping anyone and there never was anything to investigate or else they were helping Hitlery and 0vomit wanted to allow it.


17 posted on 03/29/2017 8:23:06 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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Don't believe a word of this.

 

18 posted on 03/29/2017 8:23:58 PM PDT by Bronzewound (2016 GOP. A Timid Little Division Of The Democrat Party.)
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To: Sacajaweau

NewsWEEK.

This is BS.


19 posted on 03/29/2017 8:24:28 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Bogie

I remember my mom railing against the “boob tube” and Madison ave. in the ‘70’s, she was right.


20 posted on 03/29/2017 8:25:14 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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